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2580: Rest and Fluids

2022-02-13T08:01:47Z

VEGA1243: /* Transcript */

{{comic
| number = 2580
| date = February 11, 2022
| title = Rest and Fluids
| image = rest_and_fluids.png
| titletext = Remember not to take it easy. Put a hot washcloth on your forehead, remain standing, and breathe dry air while taking lots of histamines. You need to give your body a chance to get sick again.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a HYDROPHILIC EDITOR - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
[[Black Hat]] congratulates [[Cueball]] on his recovery from some type of illness or injury. Common advice when someone is sick is to get plenty of rest and drink lots of water, to aid recovery and to ensure they don't ignore various common causes of fluid loss.

However, being Black Hat, he targets Cueball (who has been restored to full health) to tell him that he now should do the opposite of this. While a healthy person should get a reasonable amount of exercise, and should not spend excessive time in bed, Black Hat goes to an absurd extreme. He tells Cueball to stop drinking water entirely and engage in an excessive amount of activity — in this case, by running on a {{w|treadmill}} to the point of physical collapse. The caption explains this, saying that it is "important" to tell people who have recently recovered from sickness to stop resting and drinking fluids, clearly asserting that these behaviours are for the exclusive purpose of healing, and that they are useless (or even counter-productive) for someone who is now healthy.

(Obviously, because {{w|dehydration}} and over-exerting yourself is generally bad, people should not take this advice literally. They should gradually resume normal activities, including exercise, in safe amounts.)

The title-text expands on this backward line of thinking by suggesting to do the opposite of common remedies for various usual remedies: a hot cloth, standing, breathing parched air, taking {{w|histamines}} (this is as opposed to reducing a fever with a cool compress, resting in bed, inhaling hot water vapours and using {{w|antihistamine}}s). Done inadvisedly, each of these can make one ill. Needless to say, this is the opposite of what most people want to achieve with their health; Remember not to take it easy. Put a hot washcloth on your forehead, remain standing, and breathe dry air while taking lots of histamines. You need to give your body a chance to get sick again.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball and Black Hat are talking to each other. Black Hat has his arms outstreched.]
:Black Hat: So glad you're feeling better!
:Black Hat: Be sure to get dehydrated and run on a treadmill until you black out!

:[Caption below the panel:]
:Once people aren't sick anymore, it's important to remind them to stop resting and drinking fluids.

Title text: Remember not to take it easy. Put a hot washcloth on your forehead, remain standing, and breathe dry air while taking lots of histamines. You need to give your body a chance to get sick again.
{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Biology]]

2580: Rest and Fluids

2022-02-13T08:01:07Z

VEGA1243: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 2580
| date = February 11, 2022
| title = Rest and Fluids
| image = rest_and_fluids.png
| titletext = Remember not to take it easy. Put a hot washcloth on your forehead, remain standing, and breathe dry air while taking lots of histamines. You need to give your body a chance to get sick again.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a HYDROPHILIC EDITOR - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
[[Black Hat]] congratulates [[Cueball]] on his recovery from some type of illness or injury. Common advice when someone is sick is to get plenty of rest and drink lots of water, to aid recovery and to ensure they don't ignore various common causes of fluid loss.

However, being Black Hat, he targets Cueball (who has been restored to full health) to tell him that he now should do the opposite of this. While a healthy person should get a reasonable amount of exercise, and should not spend excessive time in bed, Black Hat goes to an absurd extreme. He tells Cueball to stop drinking water entirely and engage in an excessive amount of activity — in this case, by running on a {{w|treadmill}} to the point of physical collapse. The caption explains this, saying that it is "important" to tell people who have recently recovered from sickness to stop resting and drinking fluids, clearly asserting that these behaviours are for the exclusive purpose of healing, and that they are useless (or even counter-productive) for someone who is now healthy.

(Obviously, because {{w|dehydration}} and over-exerting yourself is generally bad, people should not take this advice literally. They should gradually resume normal activities, including exercise, in safe amounts.)

The title-text expands on this backward line of thinking by suggesting to do the opposite of common remedies for various usual remedies: a hot cloth, standing, breathing parched air, taking {{w|histamines}} (this is as opposed to reducing a fever with a cool compress, resting in bed, inhaling hot water vapours and using {{w|antihistamine}}s). Done inadvisedly, each of these can make one ill. Needless to say, this is the opposite of what most people want to achieve with their health; Remember not to take it easy. Put a hot washcloth on your forehead, remain standing, and breathe dry air while taking lots of histamines. You need to give your body a chance to get sick again.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball and Black Hat are talking to each other. Black Hat has his arms outstreched.]
:Black Hat: So glad you're feeling better!
:Black Hat: Be sure to get dehydrated and run on a treadmill until you black out!

:[Caption below the panel:]
:Once people aren't sick anymore, it's important to remind them to stop resting and drinking fluids.
{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Biology]]

2580: Rest and Fluids

2022-02-13T08:00:32Z

VEGA1243: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 2580
| date = February 11, 2022
| title = Rest and Fluids
| image = rest_and_fluids.png
| titletext = Remember not to take it easy. Put a hot washcloth on your forehead, remain standing, and breathe dry air while taking lots of histamines. You need to give your body a chance to get sick again.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a HYDROPHILIC EDITOR - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
[[Black Hat]] congratulates [[Cueball]] on his recovery from some type of illness or injury. Common advice when someone is sick is to get plenty of rest and drink lots of water, to aid recovery and to ensure they don't ignore various common causes of fluid loss.

However, being Black Hat, he targets Cueball (who has been restored to full health) to tell him that he now should do the opposite of this. While a healthy person should get a reasonable amount of exercise, and should not spend excessive time in bed, Black Hat goes to an absurd extreme. He tells Cueball to stop drinking water entirely and engage in an excessive amount of activity — in this case, by running on a {{w|treadmill}} to the point of physical collapse. The caption explains this, saying that it is "important" to tell people who have recently recovered from sickness to stop resting and drinking fluids, clearly asserting that these behaviours are for the exclusive purpose of healing, and that they are useless (or even counter-productive) for someone who is now healthy.

(Obviously, because {{w|dehydration}} and over-exerting yourself is generally bad, people should not take this advice literally. They should gradually resume normal activities, including exercise, in safe amounts.)

The title-text expands on this backward line of thinking by suggesting to do the opposite of common remedies for various usual remedies: a hot cloth, standing, breathing parched air, taking {{w|histamines}} (this is as opposed to reducing a fever with a cool compress, resting in bed, inhaling hot water vapours and using {{w|antihistamine}}s). Done inadvisedly, each of these can make one ill. Needless to say, this is the opposite of what most people want to achieve with their health. {{Remember not to take it easy. Put a hot washcloth on your forehead, remain standing, and breathe dry air while taking lots of histamines. You need to give your body a chance to get sick again.}}

==Transcript==
:[Cueball and Black Hat are talking to each other. Black Hat has his arms outstreched.]
:Black Hat: So glad you're feeling better!
:Black Hat: Be sure to get dehydrated and run on a treadmill until you black out!

:[Caption below the panel:]
:Once people aren't sick anymore, it's important to remind them to stop resting and drinking fluids.
{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Biology]]